A campaign of awareness organised worldwide for #668Babies in Turkish prisons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4RoIhFId0 A worldwide awareness campaign was conducted on Saturday in major cities across the world including London, Berlin and Stockholm for 668 babies who were...

Former AKP deputy targets main opposition leader and his Alevi heritage

Hüseyin Besli, a former deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), targeted Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and his Alevi...

COMMENTARY — Turkey’s diaspora agency is building Erdoğan’s proxies abroad

By Abdullah Bozkurt The recent appointment to the leadership of Turkey’s diaspora agency confirms the long-held view that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

89 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week

Eighty-nine people have over the past week been detained on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based...

Pioneering Saturday Mothers activist passes away, sparking grief among fellow campaigners

Emine Ocak, a pioneering activist with the Saturday Mothers movement who joined the first protest in Istanbul’s Galata Square on May 27, 1995 in...

37 detained across Turkey for helping families of jailed Gülen followers

Thirty-seven people have been detained in a Bartın-based operation that was also conducted in Karabük, İstanbul and Isparta provinces on terrorism charges for helping...

Turkey declared ‘not free’ in world freedom report

Political and civil rights in Turkey have deteriorated so severely under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Turkey is no longer a free country, according...

Inmates in Çorum’s minimum security prison not allowed to take university courses despite regulations

Inmates in a minimum security prison in central Turkey's Çorum province said they weren't allowed to attend university courses although they have the right...

Turkish businessman who spent more than a year in jail over Gülen links dies...

Turkish businessman Ali Hocaoğlu, who spent more than a year in pre-trial detention over alleged links to the Gülen movement, has reportedly died of...
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Turkish purge victim, rights activist loses battle against cancer

Haluk Savaş, 54, a leading human rights activist and a victim of a large-scale post-coup purge in Turkey, lost his battle against cancer on...

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